Photographic Exhibit: Uyghurs: Victims of the 21st Century Concentration Camps

The event is inspired by the “One Voice, One Step” movement based in Washington, DC to call attention to China’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs, Kazakh and other ethnic minorities in East Turkestan, also known as Xinjiang. The United Nations human rights panel and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination have reported that since 2017, up to two million Uyghur Muslims have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps for “political indoctrination.” Inside these camps, witnesses have conveyed the image of overcrowded, unsanitary prison-like facilities where starvation is rampant and where detainees are subjected to physical and psychological torture.

Through visual imagery, the exhibition aims to offer a glimpse in to the 21st Century concentration camps foreshadowed by the images of the Nazi era camps and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

This is event will be from 10 a.m -4 p.m and it is free of charge. For further enquiries, please contact Rayima Parhat at rayimaparhat@gmail.com.